Harris, Bernard; Soms, Andrew P. - In: Statistics & Probability Letters 11 (1991) 5, pp. 411-417
The general theory of optimal confidence limits for system reliability based on results of Buehler (1957) and Sudakov and references cited there (1974) is developed. Counterexamples to some results of Sudakov (1974), Winterbottom (1974) and Harris and Soms (1980, 1981) are exhibited. Numerical...